Welcome to Windows 7 Forums. Our forum is dedicated to helping you find support and solutions for any problems regarding your Windows 7 PC be it Dell, HP, Acer, Asus or a custom build. We also provide an extensive Windows 7 tutorial section that covers a wide range of tips and tricks.

Windows 7: smart way to manage services in windows 7

I would like to know if there is a smart way to manage services in windows seven. If I want to disable some services in windows 7 and speed up my comupter, I need to spend several hours browsing through the services and read about every single service listed. This way I know what I am exactly doing.

The problem is that the above mentioned method is very time consuming. Is there a better way to manage services in windows seven?

Normally disabling services will not significantly improve performance. You are far more likely to cause problems. The problem is that there is no publicly available documentation anywhere that full describes what each service does. Many do more than the documentation in Service manager states. All documentation you will find is incomplete.

The best way to manage system services is to leave them alone unless you have a specific need to do otherwise.

Thank you very much for your anwser. But why do you say I should configure the services only once. Whenever I install a new program on my computer, it may start a new service. This change is visible if you start services.msc.

Hi. Well some programs install will install a service that sometimes won't be removed when you uninstall that program. My usual method is to check to see if such a service exists then stop or disable it before uninstalling the program. Occasionally I've had to delete a (non-windows) service manually.

I think that what the forum members with more experience are saying is that you shouldn't mess around with services that are installed as part of windows and if you do mess around with them you should create a system image backup first. I personally tried Black Viper's services tweaks and it did indeed lead to problems. I still disable some services or set them to manual start but in general they should be left alone unless you know exactly why you want to change their start up type.

A couple of examples: Superfetch is disabled because I use a Ramdisk with user temp and system temp files configured to use the Ramdisk. DNS Client Service is disabled because I use a pretty large HOSTS file. These services just shouldn't be disabled on a standard setup machine.

Anyway as it's been mentioned an easy way to apply only safe services tweaks is to use the portable version of:

You are wasting your time. Disabling services that do nothing do not slow down the system. However, I would control the startups and allow only those services that you need - ususally the AV program and those that you put yourself into the startups.

I would suggest to leave Windows 7 Services alone. The key words (Windows 7). You don't need or want to do the kinds of things that we use to do in XP.
If by chance you would want to know the default settings look at this Tutorial.

Services - Restore Default Services in Windows 7How to Restore Default Services in Windows 7
This tutorial provides you with registry downloads that will completely restore any of the default services and their settings you want in Windows 7. This can be handy if a service was deleted by mistake, is missing, or had it's properties set...

Tutorials

soft to manage launching of soft on 5760*1080 and manage, its so panichttps://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=57487370749B6866!1322&authkey=!4LBOC9*NPyA%24
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=57487370749B6866!1322&authkey=!4LBOC9*NPyA%24
above is my Eyefinity setup 5760*1080 with HD 7950 OC 3GB( 4th monitor is shut down because AMD strictly need Active...

Graphic Cards

Reinstall Smart Card ServicesHi all,
I have a problem on a Windows 7 64bit computer. I can't get the Smart Card service to work. Now I tried registering the dll's with the regsvr32 but some of them were unable to load or are probably damaged.
My question is: How can I delete the entire service including all the dlls and...

General Discussion

SMART Windows Services Automatic Tweaking UtilityFew months ago I wrote an application for The Windows Club and might as well post it here for anyone hasn't come across it yet.
There are many registry tweaks out there that tweak the Windows Services, so I decided to put together an application that automatically tweaks the Windows Services...